Danture Wickramasinghe
University of Glasgow
59 Papers
267 Citations
Danture Wickramasinghe is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Management accounting & Accountability. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 50 publications. Previous affiliations of Danture Wickramasinghe include University of Aberdeen & University of Hull.
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Papers
Management accounting in less developed countries: what is known and needs knowing
TL;DR: In this article, a desk-based study of existing literature analysed through a framework of management control transformation in developing countries derived from the authors' research is presented, which is the first review of this area and thus should help intending and existing scholars.
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A cultural political economy of management accounting controls: A case study of a textile Mill in a traditional Sinhalese village
TL;DR: A cultural political economy of management accounting, drawing from political and economic history, modes of production theory in development studies, and cultural anthropology is used here to inform a longitudinal case study of management control in a textile mill in a traditional Sinhalese village in Sri Lanka.
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Management Accounting Change : Approaches and Perspectives
Danture Wickramasinghe,Chandana Alawattage +1 more
- 14 Aug 2007
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a student-centered textbook to bridge the technical and theoretical aspects of management accounting change, including customer and strategic orientations in business, flexible manufacturing, post-bureaucracy, network and virtual organizational technologies.
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Japanese cost management meets Sri Lankan politics: Disappearance and reappearance of bureaucratic management controls in a privatised utility
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study illustrates how a Japanese manager's charismatic and patrimonial leadership eliminated bureaucratic controls, brought new management controls and reward systems, and achieved some commercial success.
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Appearance of accounting in a political hegemony
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the role accounting has assumed within political hegemonies of the Third World is rather representational and reproductive: it reproduces rather than constitutes the constitutive role of the political hegemony by representing it as a calculated "truth" or a "nature".
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